The point here is that good QTEs simply allow the player to perform more complex actions that are difficult to represent with a standard input system. Bad QTE's feel like your merely pressing the play button to start a brief cutscene.

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MasterofShadows wrote:The point here is that good QTEs simply allow the player to perform more complex actions that are difficult to represent with a standard input system. Bad QTE's feel like your merely pressing the play button to start a brief cutscene.

You convinced me then. But I still believe Backstabs aren't QTE. Now, that thing I said about grabs and R1/L1, in Dark Souls II a prompt may appear showing R1 + L1 indicating you have to pressed them, as an example; but I wouldn't consider it a very complex action.

MasterofShadows wrote:The point here is that good QTEs simply allow the player to perform more complex actions that are difficult to represent with a standard input system. Bad QTE's feel like your merely pressing the play button to start a brief cutscene.

You convinced me then. But I still believe Backstabs aren't QTE. Now, that thing I said about grabs and R1/L1, in Dark Souls II a prompt may appear showing R1 + L1 indicating you have to pressed them, as an example; but I wouldn't consider it a very complex action.

Are you saying that the backstab animation is just as complex as the rest of the other attack animations?

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